Quote of the Day
If you enjoy programming, philosophy, math, or any number of geeky topics, you're in the right place. Every day, I'll post a random quote from my extensive collection of Kindle highlights. Quotes do not necessarily reflect my views or opinions. In fact, part of my epistemic process is to consume a wide variety of contradictory material.
04/25/2023
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
— Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
04/24/2023
Efficiency stems more from good design than from good coding.
— Robert L. Glass, Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
04/23/2023
To proclaim a universal love of humanity is, in practice, to acknowledge the preferment of all that is suffering, ill-constituted, degenerate … For the wellbeing of the species, it is necessary for the ill-constituted, the feeble, the degenerate to perish.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power
04/22/2023
With the disappearance of medium-skilled jobs, it’s not enough to get a basic education and work hard every day in order to succeed.
— Scott Young, Ultralearning
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